25 Quotes by Andre Malraux
Andre Malraux was a French writer, adventurer, and statesman who is best known for his novel “Man’s Fate.” He was also an art theorist and curator, and he played a significant role in preserving and protecting cultural heritage during his time as France’s Minister of Culture. Malraux’s writings and actions reflect his deep commitment to humanism and his belief in the transformative power of art. He remains an important figure in French literature and culture. (Bio)
Andre Malraux Quotes
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream. (Meaning)
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. (Meaning)
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it’s better not to be a fish.
If you can’t make art, make your life a work of art.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
I don’t argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life’s problems without asking its question.
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
There’s no such thing as a grown up person.
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without ‘playing up’ to anyone – even to himself.
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
― Andre Malraux Quotes
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